The successful execution of a local area networking course that meets the first objective of a vendor neutral environment and does not require substantial infrastructure is an important goal. The second objective to be met with a vendor neutral laboratory course is teaching the fundamentals of local area networking in an open and exciting atmosphere of discovery. There is a particular set of laboratory exercises that can support a course environment that meets such diverse objectives. Having those laboratory exercises vendor and teaching text neutral becomes a challenging endeavor.

The details of the laboratory exercises examine the overall objective of the laboratory requirement, the high level view of the course information, and basic set up information for the laboratory exercises. Each laboratory exercise should have a specific set of outcome based objectives that map to the course level within the curriculum, the laboratory objectives should map to the course correctly, and the topics should assist in building the steps of the course. All of this meshing of objectives to curriculum is done in a vendor neutral environment while exposing students to the concepts of local area networking that can be applied to all vendor devices. The basics of the laboratory local area networking course include such diverse topics as cabling, TCP/IP, switching on the local area network, broadcast devices, and planning. The laboratory course introducing local area networking builds upon previous theory courses, and then continues to build upon each laboratory experience within the course.

Web Resources

Cyber?

Cyber security and the technologies of securing the information enterprise of industry and government require a trans-disciplinary while still STEM focused research agenda. The term “cyber” itself denotes a human cognitive centric concept that deals with the disintermediation of technology centered within human activity. The changing focus from system threat mitigation to enterprise risk management has opened completely new areas of inquiry into security.

Power

Amateurs argue about crime and punishment. Experts argue about authorities and budgets.